Böcker av Philip Bonner

Ekurhuleni - The making of an urban region is the first academic work to provide an historical account and explanation of the development of this extended region to the east of Johannesburg since its origins at the end of the nineteenth century.

Integrating research and developing trans-frontier research networks, this book challenges thinking about the southern Africa's expanding internal and colonial frontiers, and extends perceptions about southern Africa's colonial past.

Presents a social history of one of South Africa's oldest townships. This title covers the period from the township's founding in 1912, when it was perceived as a peri-urban out-post, through to its growth as a centre of black working class life in the heart of Johannesburg, to the post-apartheid era.

This is the first full-length study of the political economy of one of the African states formed during the nineteenth-century Zulu revolution. It covers the evolution of the Swazi state and the dynamics of its stratified systems; its relations with the surrounding Boer societies; and its eventual dissolution.